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FabCon Barcelona 2026: What's new?

The 12 Microsoft Fabric updates from Barcelona that matter most.

13 slides · October 3, 2026

  1. FabCon Barcelona 2026 What's New cover with Barcelona at night and the Sagrada Familia.

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    01

    FabCon 2026: What's new?

    The 12 Microsoft Fabric updates from Barcelona that matter most.

  2. Calm infographic showing Power BI, OneLake and business context flowing through Fabric IQ into Copilot.

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    02 GA

    Fabric IQ enters Copilot

    Governed Power BI context now follows you into Copilot.

    Microsoft Azure blog ↗
  3. Microsoft Power BI Desktop preview showing natural-language app creation from a semantic model.

    Microsoft announcement visual

    03 Coming soon

    Power BI builds apps

    Describe an app from a semantic model, then refine and publish it.

    Microsoft Power BI blog ↗
  4. Microsoft Fabric App example combining operational, real-time and analytical data in one application.

    Microsoft announcement GIF

    04 Preview

    Fabric Apps grow up

    Functions, storage, PostgreSQL and connectors move into one deployable app.

    Microsoft Fabric blog ↗
  5. Editorial infographic showing the data engineering agent flow from goal to plan, execute and validate in Microsoft Fabric.

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    05 Preview

    Data engineering gets an agent

    Set the goal. The agent plans, executes and validates long-running Fabric work.

    Microsoft Fabric blog ↗
  6. Microsoft Fabric interface for creating an IQ sharing item with governed data and business context.

    Microsoft announcement GIF

    06 Preview

    IQ sharing

    Share governed data, metadata and agent context as one package.

    Microsoft Fabric blog ↗
  7. Microsoft Fabric visual showing Salesforce Data 360 connected into OneLake.

    Microsoft announcement visual

    07 New

    OneLake reaches further

    BigQuery is GA, while Salesforce and Business Central move closer to OneLake.

    Microsoft Fabric blog ↗
  8. Microsoft Fabric visual showing live signals, business context, decisions and actions in a continuous operating loop.

    Microsoft announcement visual

    08 New

    Copilot meets real-time

    Copilot can build dashboards and investigate live operational signals.

    Microsoft Fabric blog ↗
  9. Microsoft Fabric Monitor Hub showing capacity health, degraded workloads and available headroom.

    Microsoft announcement screenshot

    09 Preview

    Fabric observability

    Monitor jobs, workspaces and capacities, then investigate issues with shared context.

    Microsoft Fabric blog ↗
  10. Microsoft Fabric capacity health view showing utilization, throttling risk and workload activity.

    Microsoft announcement screenshot

    10 Coming soon

    Compute gets elastic

    F0 removes upfront capacity; on-demand billing scales with the compute you actually use.

    Microsoft Fabric blog ↗
  11. Microsoft Fabric Database Hub overview showing estate issues, security, performance, optimization, SQL, PostgreSQL and Cosmos DB.

    Microsoft announcement screenshot

    11 Preview

    Database Hub

    See SQL, PostgreSQL and Cosmos DB health and issues from one control plane.

    Microsoft Fabric blog ↗
  12. Microsoft Fabric Data Factory integration stack showing connectivity, movement, orchestration, transformation, deployment, observability and AI.

    Microsoft Learn visual

    12 New

    Data Factory gets agentic

    MCP and Fabric Skills let agents build, run, monitor and repair data integration.

    Microsoft Fabric blog ↗
  13. Microsoft Fabric enterprise intelligence visual connecting data, context, governance, decisions and action.

    Microsoft announcement visual

    13 Big picture

    One operating layer

    Fabric is converging data, context, apps and agents into one governed platform.

    Microsoft Azure blog ↗
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